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Ademonstration of the Lacedaemonians against Argos and for the assistance of Epidaurus is without result.

Λεῦκτρα: can be only the Areadian Leuctra, since it is described as πρὸςτὸΛύκαιον (another Leuctra was in Laconia, near the mouth of the Pamisus). At this time the Lacedaemonians counted it among their possessions, although it was situated in the μεθορία, and they wished to cross the border from this point. It afterwards belonged to the territory of Megalopolis. See Curtius, Pelopon. I. p. 293 and p. 336, note 9.

ἄγοντεςτὴνἡμέρανταύτηνπάντατὸνχρόνον: with this punctuation (comma after πάντατὸνχρόνον, not before), which is that adopted by Bekker, Grote, VI. p. 336, explains: ‘keeping that day during the whole time’; i.e. they called every day the 27th as long as they were in Epidaurian territory, and in that way postponed the following month as long as they pleased. Madvig (Advv. Critt. I. p. 324) gives the same explanation: Argivi fraude minime sane subtili utentes, ne mense Carneo, ut adversarii, quiescere cogerentur, per totum tempus unum diem se agere finexerunt eodemque omnes numero nomineque signarunt, τριακάδα [rather τετράδα]φθίνοντος mensis qui Carneum praecedebat appellantes. He compares with this a similar trick told of Alexander by Plut. Alex. 16. Grote reminds us that the Argives once tried a similar trick against the Lacedaemonians. Cf. Xen. Hell. iv. 7. 1 f. (Schütz, Ztschr. für d. Gymn. Wesen 1, 31, p. 258, thinks it means “marching this day all the time,” i.e. ‘they employed the whole day in marching.’）

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